The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
MONONGALIA TEACHERS.
Some Suggestions to Them by Fellow
Teacher.

Teacher.
FELLOW TEACHERS. The time is
drawing near when we must assume
our positions in the many white
school houses that dot the hills and
valleys of our county. And allow
me to say that what / shall offer in
this article is from no egotistical
feeling whatever, but from love
and good will / have for the welfare
and advancement of the schools of
my county. l am only teacher
with the rest of you, and offer these
remarks to cause you to mediate
upon the condition of our schools
and fully awaken you to the work
which lies before you.
Are our schools doing the work
they should? If not how can they
be made to accomplish a greater
work and consequently achieve a
greater success?
Many suggestions might be offered
but as / must be brief, / will offer
but one.
The principal suggestion, and the
one which will include all the rest,
is, for us, as teachers, to take hold
of our work with an eye single to the
elevation and general advancement
of our separate and individual
schools, doing all we see ought to
be done for each and every pupil
placed under our charge, impartially
and irrespective of their financial or
political condition: yet if lenient'at
all, let it be toward the poor and OPP
pressed.
We must not think because we re-
ceive small pay that the work must
be small, but let us measure the sal
airy by the labor performed, which if
we would all do, and show by so do
ing, that there is great deficiency
on the salary side, and that our la
bors, not only in few instances,
but everywhere, show a great sur
plus of unpaid for labor, then our
schools will be in first class working
condition, and our Boards will be
encouraged to raise our salaries
There are too many teachers who
complain of low salaries who are not
trying, by their services, to make
their schools pay any better.
Now, fellow teachers, there are
many little things which GO to make
an entirely successful term of school,
which many teachers think have
nothing to do with their part of the
work. Remember our lives are made
up of little things, some pleasant
and some grieyous to remember, in
terwoyen in and out, much like the gar
ments we wear. Therefore, despist
not the day of little things.
Also remember you are placed
over these little ones to instruct
them Alright. and a failure to do Sc
on account of negligence on your
part, will forfeit your right to the
tree of life.
1t is your duty while acting in thu
capacity of teacher-which includes
your time out of school as we'll as il
to correct every error you notice
however small or great, the same al
a loving parent would who is en-
deavoring to train up his child il
the way he should go.
Let us be what we profess to be
not only in the school but out of it
{ let US be teachers in thoughts, word
and deeds. Let us purge ourselve
Of everything which does not becom
US as teachers; thinking only o
those things which pertain to
e higher, nobler and purer life usinl
} language which has the same ten
, dency, and doing the right at al
times so far as it lieth within us.
Now I trust I have not placed be
| fore you an ideal model, which W
f as real individuals cannot initiate
f | do think every teacher should hav
the love of God in his heart, and j
he possess this he will no doubt pos
sess q rightly trained conscience
which is the pole to which ever
e needle points; the Ell Dorado to al
D of our hopes.
/ do believe one reason our school
: are not what they should be is be
: cause we, as teachers, are not doin
' what we ought-are not doing wha
$ we can do. Another reason is tina
the parents do not assist us as the
should. If they would assist us b
properly training and advising thei
children the entire time they are on
0 of school-instead of letting ther
? spend their time, like some, as the
q please-many times they woul
blush to think their child guilty @
going where he does, and of cours
many little degrading acts are thu
: committed without their knowledge
}. and only brought to their knowledg
, by being detected after he is brough
under the supervision Of the vigi
liant eye of the poor pedagogue who
!. for his pains taking in trying to con
e vert him from his evil ways, receive
O TRADE of abuse. If they woul
look after their children while out {
= school as well as visiting the schoe
occasionally our schools would b
8 far more successful than they are
Then teachers let us more full
equip ourselves for our great missio
and go forth more fully determine
than ever to make this the mos
successful term of our teaching, il
u sisting upon trustees and patrons t
assist us by visiting us frequentl
and encouraging their children t
attend school regularly. If / hay
: accomplished any good by causin
;, some teacher to try to do bette
Z" work or some trustee or parent t
more fully discharge his duty, l al
- content. A TEACHER.
= CAssvlLLE,- October /, 1887.
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